10,000+ Say Pardon Martha! Sign the petition to pardon Martha Stewart...(Tell a friend) (Alexandra Mark's letter to Judge Cedarbaum) Sign up | Sign Petition | Store Locator | Save Martha Radio | Mail | Free Stickers & Posters | CBS | WCBS NY | Viacom Local Networks | MarthaTalks.com | Martha Stewart Photos | To Do list Alexis speaks out: Martha feels `like her life was wasted' Alexis Stewart to appear on Larry King Live on CNN (See the transcript) Alexis on the verdict:"It's difficult. Somehow, it's -- I told my friend it was perverse, and he said -- we've argued over the definition of perverse, and I looked it up, and it can mean when a jury disregards the evidence in their verdict. And I don't know if they did that on purpose, but that's what it felt like." Alexis on Martha:"Everything she did is ignored over something that trivial, that maybe didn't happen. "She's too, ironically, forgiving and kind and -- I know people don't know that, but she was incredibly generous and she gives too much, I think." How you can help Save Martha! Dear Friends, If you are serious about saving Martha from the very real possibility of going to prison, please read this, because now is the time to take action. I was reading Newsweek recently and came across an article called "Prison Life: Advice for Martha." An aerial photo of the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut shows the place where Martha will likely be sent if she does not prevail in her appeal The article tells of what prison life is like there, with 80 people in a room, no privacy, a facility that looks like a military barracks, where prisoners only get to make 15 minute phone calls which are recorded. Long days are filled with boring physical labor. It is not very pleasant. After all, it is a prison. But that is not where Martha Stewart belongs. And that's where prosecutors want to send her. Why? In a true democracy, justice must be even-handed. We should not prosecute people just because they are rich, famous, or because we happen to not like them. That is exactly what is happening to Martha Stewart. In spite of the fact that many similar cases have been settled civilly, with fines and sanctions, this case is being handled as a criminal matter. Martha was been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion even before the verdict was read. We have all seen the cruel Martha parodies of decorated jail cells , and even the depiction of Martha dreaming she was behind bars in the NBC TV movie. But the picture and description of the prison in Danbury really hit me. If prosecutors get their way, Martha Stewart could be living there for 10 to 2.0 months Your help can make a difference With your help, we have been fighting to Save Martha for the past two years. Since Martha was indicted in early June, we have received millions of hits. Many of your e-mails to us have been published and quoted in media from Reuters to the AP, from the Washington Post to the NY Post. Most of us believed this matter would have been settled in Martha's favor by now. But it has not. It is quite obvious that prosecutors are serious about combating corporate crime; we applaud that effort. But we believe this is not the case that will restore our confidence in the system; in fact many of you have written in that it will do just the opposite. A backlash against the extreme measures being used to "Get Martha" is growing. Without a public demonstration of this feeling, that may not be enough. Now a sentencing date has been set for June 17th, 2004. If Martha does not prevail through her appeal or our petition for a pardon, she faces serious jail time. You can support our ongoing campaign, either through a purchase or a donation. The save Martha campaign is entering it's third year, and we need your help to continue. Martha's just a drop in the bucket --UPI The degradation and conviction of Martha Stewart on stock charges was characterized by one juror in New York as "a victory for the little guy." Bull. The truth is that despite the letter of the law, Wall Street lives and breathes insider information. The image of Martha Stewart, convicted felon, is not going to change things. Wall Street could not operate the way it does without some type of insider information. It could not make millionaires out of some and chumps out of others without it. Write to Martha Send Martha Stewart your thoughts at her personal website, MarthaTalks.com Martha's Mistrial: The Insider Trading Accusation Came from a Cowardly Press Leak--Cato Institute by Alan Reynolds Juror Chappelle Hartridge told reporters the jury felt Stewart's background as a stockbroker meant "she should have known her moves were illegal." The jury thought Stewart was guilty of insider trading, and should have known better because she had been a stockbroker. The reason jurors and journalists wrongly accused Stewart of insider trading is just one reason Martha Stewart deserves to win on appeal. Judge Miriam Cedarbaum prohibited the defence team from mentioning the fact that it was perfectly legal for Martha Stewart to sell on her broker's advice, regardless what Doug Faneuil may have said or why. Either his explanation or hers may be correct, and they are not mutually exclusive. But the jury would surely have wondered why the motive for selling ImClone stock mattered so much if they could have been told the sale itself was no crime. Martha Stewart's Next Big House? Washington Post At the federal prison camp for women in Danbury, Conn., where Martha Stewart may serve time, pickup trucks of armed guards are always circling. The prison camp, which houses 200 people, has a long history of housing high-profile white-collar convicts, from hotel magnate Leona Helmsley to G. Gordon Liddy and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, back when it was a male facility. Was that Martha? Dallas Morning News I can go to bed tonight and sleep soundly knowing that the folks at the Securities and Exchange Commission, federal prosecutors and the FBI are on the job. Martha Stewart is possibly going to jail. Her alleged lies to these agencies about millions of dollars of profit to her cost her company millions if not billions in losses resulting in tens of thousands of people losing their jobs and life savings. Oh! Wait a minute. Someone just told me "That wasn't Martha. That was Ken Lay." Fans Tell CBS: Bring Martha Home Dear CBS,Please, Please bring Martha Stewart back to the CBS Early Show.   We miss Martha's great tips and wonderful ideas....our breath of fresh air is gone!  You have no idea what her loss means to so many women in Charleston, SC. Charleston, SC loves Martha!   --Gloria Prosser and other co-workers at the Medical University of South Carolina - Blood Bank.   Dear CBS,Please bring Martha Stewart back to the CBS morning line up at 9:00 am in LA & NY - that new show with Ali & Jack is so embarrassing. --Cyndy Speak Out Readers thank Martha's loyal advertisers Fans Tell CBS: Bring Martha Home! CBS Interactive feature: The ImClone scandal Dear CBS, Please bring Martha Stewart back to the CBS Early Show.  What the heck are you thinking about?   Martha's program was the only time I tuned into a CBS show.  It was your only chance to get me to watch something else on your station.  The station that once had such great sitcoms as I Love Lucy, All In The Family, etc.  Now, Ali & Jack?  Give me a break. I have no use for this replacement. To replace a show that has some class and contains informative topics, such as Martha's does, with this piece of pablum-based, boombox dribble is an insult to the intelligence of the audience that you thought you knew so well.  Well, guess what?  You don't know your audience.  And your audience is not going to know CBS either, for it will go elsewhere unless a program change with Martha in her original time slot occurs. I look forward to you listening to your consciences and putting Martha back where she belongs.  Until then, CBS?  NOT a good thing. Sincerely, Joseph DiPietro Deconstructing Byron Vol. 23 To the Ends of the Earth By Andrew Ritchie In this, the last chapter of "Martha Inc.," Byron brings the story full circle by recounting how he first approached Martha with the idea to write about "the business success story" of Martha Stewart. He sent her an e-mail detailing his ideas to which she replied: "Dear Chris – sounds like a great idea, but I have been writing the book for years! I have a title and everything, just don’t have the time. We’ll talk over the phone." The book she had been writing for years was scheduled for release in the fall of 2002 but was cancelled after Byron’s insipid biography emerged from the shadows in the spring of that year. The book, "Martha – Really and Truly," was to be a warts-and-all autobiography about her rise to fame and fortune but has been indefinitely postponed, thanks in large part to the release of "Martha Inc." Byron says that after repeated attempts to sit down with Martha he began to see that she was not really that interested in cooperating with him, saying that she had become "all brusque business" and was no longer chatty and warm. He says a conflict emerged when he told her that he intended on doing his own independent research and interviews. Byron asserts that Martha wanted him to ghostwrite her autobiography, telling things the way she alone remembered them. "No deal," he allegedly told her over the phone, though it seems unlikely that he could muster such courage. "I told Wiley (the publishing group) I’m going to write a book about you and your company and that’s it. You either cooperate or not, it’s your choice." Given this "I do what I please and I do it with ease" attitude that Byron thrust upon his subject, an attitude he ironically crucifies Martha for throughout the book, it’s no surprise that Martha then embarked on a campaign to have the book stopped. She called friends and family members imploring them not to take part. (Read More) CBS: Cutting Back on Stewart Do Martha Stewart fans have any reason to watch CBS? Martha loses slot on CBS owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Miami Martha Stewart has not appeared on the CBS Early Show since teh infamous cabbage chopping interview with Jane Clayson. Martha answered Jane's questions to the best of her ability, but evidently that just wasn't enough for the big boys at Black Rock. As CBS well knows, Martha Stewart has been unable to answer most questions about her ImClone stock sale due to the ongoing legal situation. In spite of doing her best to answer their questions without putting herself in more legal jeopardy, her appearances on the Early Show were been put "on hold" until the case is resolved. And now CBS has cancelled Martha Stewart Living on CBS owned stations. This change will affect staions in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Miami . Was this all payback from CBS for Martha refusing to answer more of their questions and defending her own rights? The better question is, will Martha Stewart fans have any reason to bother to tune in to CBS anymore? The program that has replaced Martha's is named "Living It Up! With Ali & Jack." Ratings on this show have been less than half of hat Martha Stewart Living garnered. Martha Stewart Living is the perfect program for people who want to start the day off by learning vs. watching more mindless celebrity news, makeovers and gossip. Maybe CBS thinks Martha's fans will just be dumb enough to think any show with the word "Living" in the title is still Martha's show.                                                                            Tell CBS it's time to bring back Martha! Should Martha Stewart's Lawyer Have Strongly Advised Her to Testify?--Findlaw Assessing the Defense in the Stewart Case, Part One by Julie Hilden Was Morvillo really to blame? Much of the answer lies, of course, in attorney-client privileged conversations to which no one but the parties had access. Still, it's possible to offer some commentary on why the fault for the convictions might, or might not, lie in part with Morvillo.In my view, Morvillo made some missteps -- particularly in his summation. But on the other hand, the decision not to have Stewart testify, whether his or hers, was probably the correct one. A BAD THING--The New Yorker by JEFFREY TOOBIN Why did Martha Stewart lose? On the scale of highly publicized misdeeds in the past decade, Stewart’s trade must rank among the most trivial. She netted only about fifty thousand dollars more on the deal than if she’d held the stock for another day, and, as she told me, her ImClone holding constituted .03 per cent of her assets. It seems almost implausible that such a misstep could send Stewart to prison and lead her company to ruin—and that this happened with the help of the best and most loyal people that money could buy. Folks in Martha's hometown find conviction difficult--AP Back home, she is still Martha Kostyra -- a fresh-faced blonde in a Betty Crocker perm, the only girl in advanced math, the one who dreamed of a modeling career and played Saturday night Ping-Pong matches at Terry Verdi's house. Above all, she's still innocent. In Martha Stewart's hometown, people wince over her painful fall from grace, holding fast to the Martha they knew -- and to the notion that she was targeted for who she was, not what she did. MARTHA STEWART APPLIES FOR 'EVERYDAY LIVING' TRADEMARK --AdAge by John Fine While Martha Stewart was still on trial, the company that bears her name applied to trademark the moniker “Everyday Living” for a magazine,Martha Stewart's company wants to register "Everyday Living" as a magazine title, offering a glimpse into possible plans to rebrand products in the wake of a guilty verdict that is likely to land her in jail. Recipes of the day...Big-Batch Vegetable Soup ...Tortilla and Black-Bean Pie ...Spinach and Mushroom Quesadillas New! Join Meetup Join other Martha Stewart fans at a local meetup in your area to discuss ways to support Martha and her company. Sign up now! Tell it to the Judge Please send your letters to Hon. Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, c/o Martha's attorney to this address: Robert G. Morvillo 565 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. 10017 Support the campaign to Save Martha Help Save Martha. You can support our ongoing campaign either through a purchase or a donation. The save Martha campaign is entering it's third year, and we need your help to continue. Question du jour: Should Martha Stewart's name be removed from the company? National Save Martha day on the Tonight Show "This Saturday is Save Martha Day, everyone is supposed to go to Kmart to save Martha Stewart...of course Martha would go but she doesn't know where Kmart is." Jay Leno (Note to Jay: I'm sure Martha knows where every Kmart is...) Tell Jay to go come join us at Kmart... Why I Save Martha by Andrew Ritchie I offer this glimpse into my personal past (and it is only just a glimpse at a magnitude of emotion and trauma he and I experienced in that time) because I want to convey to you the reason I help John Small with this site every day. I help him because I have been in the shoes of Alexis Stewart. I have been in the shoes of a person who feels helpless as they watch someone they love endure month after month of finger-pointing, villification, humiliation and embarrassment - a person you love, accused of criminal activity when the facts in the case are either so murky or so trivial that you wonder why the world allows this to happen. You watch them, helpless, as they lose money, respect, friends and colleagues. And it breaks your heart. (Read More) Essentials Martha's Empire Find out about the empire Martha built from scratch and what America stands to lose if Martha is found guilty of the charges... MarthaTalks.com Send Martha some wordsof support SaveMartha Timeline You've seen the movie, now read the indictments: PDF;Martha Stewart Insider-Trading Scandal Indictment (U.S. v. Stewart) PDF: Martha Stewart Sued By S.E.C. Complaint (S.E.C. v. Stewart) Join the Martha-lution on Save Martha Radio With John Small and David Eckard, SaveMarthaTV Find out why Martha has Envy LaBouche and her $50,000 worth of psychotherapy dialing 911... Envy LaBouche, Helpless Homemaker... Deconstructing Byron Vol. 22 From Wall Street to Main Street By Andrew Ritchie 1999 was a big year for Martha Stewart. It was the year she took her company public, signaling one of the most successful and promising initial public offerings (IPO) Wall Street had ever seen. It was also the year she became wealthier than anyone had ever imagined, becoming America’s first self-made, female billionaire. It was an achievement that will forever place her in the history books as one of the most notable contributors to entrepreneurial business in America. How Martha achieved that is the subject of this chapter, with Byron demonstrating relatively good behavior throughout. Byron makes a good attempt to bring things full circle in the chapter, noting how it had been 30 years between Martha’s career as a Wall Street stockbroker and her mind-blowing success as a media tycoon, driving her down the proverbial Main Street of success. (Read more) Strange but true... Are you a diva in waiting? Now's your chance NBC's Today show is holding a search for "Today's Domestic Diva." To enter, you need to make a one-minute VHS videotape of yourself showing why you should be America's next domestic diva, demonstrating your range of domestic and home arts skills (cooking, decorating, gardening, arranging, etc.). Send it along with a 500-word essay about yourself, that tells the NBC judges why you think you are a domestic diva. Men can enter also. NBC will choose three finalists, who will face off on the Today show. All entries must be received by 5 p. Soft drink of the Day GuS: Grown Up Soda The first soda for grown-ups. It's not too sweet! Sam Waksal is in a Pennsylvania prison: Don't let Martha be next... Former ImClone CEO Sam Waksal is spending seven years in Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institute in Minersville, Pa. According to the NY Post, he will receive 40 cents an hour for working in the kitchen or on the grounds, and share one television with 300 other inmates. For visitors, the county is the home of Yuengling, America's oldest brewery. Useful link: Schuylkill County Visitors Bureau Picture du jour We just wanted to write and let Martha know that two "divas" at Chalone Wine Group in Napa California support Martha and we are letting everyone know! Marina and Erica Chalone Wine Group 621 Airpark Road Napa CA KobeBryantOnTrial.com After the verdict: Why it happened, and where do we go from here? Juror Chappelle Hartridge tells the world the verdict was "a victory for the little guy." But not so long ago, Martha Stewart was one of the little guys, and her products are desgned for the little guy too... But what can that much money really buy? Even for Martha Stewart, America's first female self-made billionaire, losing $400 million is a lot of money. That is a big loss for a single stock trade that saved her less than $60,000. We wondered how much a big spender like Tyco's ex-CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who is in court this week for allegedly looting $600 million from his company, could get for that kind of cash. Here's how many of Dennis' favorite items he could have bought at Kmart just with the money that Martha has lost... Item How much Dennis paid for each At KMart Martha Stewart Everyday How many Dennis could have bought at Kmart with $400 million Bluelight Special! Umbrella stand $15,000 $9.99 40 million Buy It Now! Shower curtain $6,000 $24.99 16 million Buy It Now! Sewing basket $6,300 $12.99 31 million Buy It Now! 2 sets of sheets (Queen size) $5,960 $69/pair 5.7 million Buy It Now! Set of coat hangers $2,900 $3.99 ea. 100 million Buy It Now! Wastebasket $2,200 $12.99 32 million Buy It Now! Notebook $1,650 $7.99 50 million Buy It Now! Pincushion $445 $14.95 (VooDoo doll) 27 million Buy It Now! Total $40,455 $170.88 Reader Mail As an admirer of Martha Stewart, totally biased in supporting her today and always, I realize my opinion is biased. However, for what it worth -- I think it would be a huge injustice to all that Martha has accomplished that is a "Good Thing" to do away with her name on her products. I highly disagree with those that suggest this would ever be necessary. Personally, I might think Martha, and her company wouldhighly benefit to simply take her company private. She has had enough negative government and media attention regarding her successes. Sincerely, Pam Williams Portland, OR Yes Virginia, there is a Save Martha Day... We've been getting e-mails all weekend about a story FoxNews keeps running which claims the founders of National Save Martha Day did not even bother to show up at their own event. That's funny, because we have plenty of pictures to prove that we did. And I was on Fox and Friends Saturday morning discussing the event, and it was their limo which delivered me to the very event at Kmart which they reported we were even attending. What makes this story even more hilarious is that their local affiliate Fox5 News in New York was running this story about the event at Kmart on Save Martha Day, at the very same time that FoxNews was reporting exactly the opposite! Reporters from AP, Reuters and the Village Voice also covered the story. Will someone please wake up Rupert Murdoch and tell him what time it is? Luckily, you have this website so you can always find out the truth. Now we know how Martha Stewart must have felt when there were all those reports about her being guilty of insider trading, the one charge she was not even on trial for. Save Martha Radio show about Save Martha day John Small speaking to Fox5 News about Save Martha Day, while FoxNews was reporting that organizers didn't bother to show up... Join the Martha-lution on Save Martha Radio With John Small, David Eckard, and YOU

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